What do you ask one of the smartest people alive in 7 minutes? That’s what I had to decide last week when I interviewed Dr Neil DeGrasse Tyson: astrophysicist, TV host and one of the only people on Earth who can claim ownership of a whole planetarium. In the amount of time it took the Curiosity Rover to land on Mars, Dr Neil DeGrasse Tyson slammed Australia’s scientific ignorance, and told me what keeps him up at night.

30 December 2014

Neil deGrasse Tyson is a brilliant, modern-day Carl Sagan. He is also, if we are to judge solely by his Twitter account, a freshman philosophy major, tweeting from his dorm room and rolling blunts on top of his used copy of Plato’s Republic.

4 June 2014

Video: Gravity is a positively stunning, occasionally horrifying cinematic masterpiece. Of course, that said, it’s got its share of problems. And no one has been more irked by these discrepancies than everyones favourite astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson. Now, you can listen to the man himself sound off on every single scientific inaccuracy in delightful detail. And trust us — there is a lot to detail.

20 March 2014

Astrophysicist and Cosmos host Neil deGrasse Tyson, in addition to being a general badass, is most famous for his wildly infectious exuberance for all things science. Unless, of course, NDT is stoned out of his mind. In which case, that vigor would probably turn into the masterpiece you see below.

18 March 2014

Seriously, folks, you need to watch nine-year-old Jacob debating about how to deflect or destroy asteroids that may hit Earth with Cosmos‘ host Neil de Grasse Tyson. The non-Newtonian fluid line is pure gold.

8 August 2013

As if you need any more convincing that science is awesome, right? Well, Neil deGrasse Tyson wants to make you love it even more. Doing his part for YouTube’s Geek Week, Neil deGrasse Tyson links you up with 10 more reasons to be in awe of science. The reasons include stuff like the Northern Lights of Finland to Cheetah robot running faster than Usain Bolt to liquid oxygen and quantum levitation.